Well it's not called person-learning-machine is it? Why would something have to learn "like a person" to be able to use the word "learn", those two concepts are not attached one to the other. If they were, saying "learn like a person" would be a pleonasm, yet it isn't.
IMHO "learning" is a fine term, it conveys the idea of what is happening effectively and quickly.
Also, we don't know how a person learns anyway, it might very well be a similar process, just way more efficient and complex.
> Evolutionary algorithms
How would you propose calling them? You have a generation of agents, each with their own specificities, and from the agents most successful to accomplish the task at hand, we derive a new generation, slightly modified from their parent's.
It seems to me "evolution" is again the most suitable and efficient way of describing what is happening.
While I agree that there is definitely too much anthropomorphizing surrounding AI, I feel you are going way too far in the opposite direction. Not every word that can be composed with natural process/humans should be banned from being used anywhere else.
Well it's not called person-learning-machine is it? Why would something have to learn "like a person" to be able to use the word "learn", those two concepts are not attached one to the other. If they were, saying "learn like a person" would be a pleonasm, yet it isn't. IMHO "learning" is a fine term, it conveys the idea of what is happening effectively and quickly.
Also, we don't know how a person learns anyway, it might very well be a similar process, just way more efficient and complex.
> Evolutionary algorithms
How would you propose calling them? You have a generation of agents, each with their own specificities, and from the agents most successful to accomplish the task at hand, we derive a new generation, slightly modified from their parent's.
It seems to me "evolution" is again the most suitable and efficient way of describing what is happening.
While I agree that there is definitely too much anthropomorphizing surrounding AI, I feel you are going way too far in the opposite direction. Not every word that can be composed with natural process/humans should be banned from being used anywhere else.